Every Hungarian’s favourite summer soup is this cold sour cherry soup. Okay, almost every. I know it sounds weird, but trust me on this one. Imagine it as a smoothie kind of thing not as a soup and it already doesn’t sound that bad!

I just realized I share a lot of sour cherry recipes... Sorry for that if you don’t like sour cherries, but it is a really common fruit in Hungary and we have tons of good recipes to share. So here is another one!

This one is a really easy and fast recipe. You just cook the pitted sour cherries in some water and then add all the other ingredients. You let it simmer for 15 minutes and you're done! But you have to wait until it cools down completely! That’s a very important step. A warm sour cherry soup is just not so apetizing, at least for me it isn't.

This is the perfect soup for a hot summer lunch or dinner. You can eat it as a soup or as a dessert at the end of a meal. It’s soooo refreshing with the cold and a bit tart sour cherries with a touch of sweet and spicy flavour. I like to use some cinnamon and cloves because they go really good with the sour cherries and it doesn’t taste christmas-y at all in the end.

Pitting the cherries takes some time, but with friends or family it is a great bonding activity. Or you can use canned, pitted cherries, I won’t judge you!

If you have never tried something like this before, you really should! But I warn you! It can be addictive!

Cold Sour Cherry Soup

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Prep Time: 5 min. Cooking Time: 30 min. Total Time: 2,5 hours (with cooling) Portins: for 6-8 person

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Ingredients:

• 550g pitted sour cherries

• 3 cups water

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon cloves

• ½ cup granulated sugar

• 20g vanilla pudding mix

• 2 and 1/4 cups + 2 tablespoons milk

Directions:

1. Put your pitted cherries, water, cinnamon and cloves into a pot. Cook on a medium heat until the cherries are cooked. It takes around 10-15 minutes.

2. In a medium bowl add the 2 tablespoons milk to the pudding mix and stir them together. Slowly add the rest of the milk. Add ½ cups of the hot juice of the cooked cherries to the milk while stiring it constantly.

3. Pour the milky mixture into the pot and cook for 15 minutes or until it thickens a bit. (It won’t be as thick as a sauce or smoothie)

4. Let it cool down completely before serving.

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